People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.